Wellness and Burnout Recovery Blog
Forget New Year’s resolutions: focus on habits to improve health and reduce stress and entrepreneurial burnout
Are you already tired of your New Year’s resolutions? I would be, if I had made any. I’m tired of reading the lists on Facebook, links on Twitter, earnest articles everywhere. Most resolutions fail, most people give them up within six days, and people often pick the same resolutions for ten years without noticeable progress.
How to Enjoy Your Family this Holiday Season
As a writer and southern storyteller, I regret I don’t have many good stories about family blow-ups during the holidays. I wonder why? Perhaps it’s because I learned these tips for How to Enjoy Your Family This Holiday Season from my relatives in the Giles and Rankin clans. Don’t drink.Or don’t drink much. My grandparents and parents
If You Give An Entrepreneur A Cookie
In the children’s book “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,” the cookie kicks off a long chain of other things the mouse needs, just because he had a cookie. One reviewer calls it a “circular tale.” Wikipedia says it illustrates a “slippery slope.” I write to entrepreneurs, because it’s a word that applies to
New Year, No Resolution
It’s the time of year when our heads swivel back and forth as we try to review the past year—BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR! BEST MOVIES! BEST DOGS ON SKATEBOARDS! FAVORITE HOLLYWOOD STARS WE NOW HATE!— while simultaneously writing our visions and intentions for the next one. Sigh. So much to do. Let me make
Read these books instead of drinking 58 Christmas cocktails?
Today I read an article called “58 Christmas cocktails to get you through the holiday drama.” Hmm. That sounds fun, but personally I think it would be more fun to have less holiday drama! So I give you a list of books that helped me find more peace and contentment while dialing the drama way